Digital platforms
Why Most Advertisers Can’t Afford to Boycott Facebook
While big brands can afford to pause their addiction to Facebook, most advertisers cannot participate, as they have become so dependent on Facebook’s ad-targeting...
Regulators Turn Their Attention Towards Apple’s Exploitation of App Developers. Now What?
Congress could level the playing field for independent app developers by looking to regulatory templates in music.
Last week, the European Commission announced it was...
At the Heart of the European Commission’s Investigations of Apple Is a Basic Question: How Should Apple Make Money?
Just like Spotify, Apple has amassed an installed base of users. Spotify sells its users to advertisers while Apple sells its users to app...
Covid-19 and Amazon’s Future: a Webinar With Stacy Mitchell, Steven Kaplan, and Jacob Schlesinger
As part of the Stigler Center’s Political Economy of Covid-19 Series of online programming, which explores the economic and political implications of Covid-19 with...
Here’s How Covid-19 Is Boosting Monopolization and Market Power
Monopolization and consolidation can happen for what seem to be good, or least necessary, reasons. How we respond as a society depends on how...
Zoom, Netflix, Slack: Amazon Is Behind All the Services We Use to Work From Home (and That’s a Problem)
The new normal for millions of people represents a near-total dependence on Amazon’s cloud-computing operation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and places a substantial portion...
Virus-Enhanced Market Power: American Small Businesses Are Kept Hostages by Amazon
Amazon announced restrictions on the type of merchandise it will allow sellers and vendors to send into its warehouses because Amazon’s fulfillment services (FBA) has reached...
Allowing Digital Platforms to Continue Picking the Winners and Losers of Our Economy Is Un-American
Antitrust law aims to stop established companies from shutting out competitors. We should revive enforcement against exclusionary conduct, as well as structurally eliminate the...
How US Regulators Allowed Google and Facebook to Become Dominant
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority recently criticized Google and Facebook's excessive market power. American regulators, on the other hand, have allowed them to consolidate...
Five Conditions for Corporations About to Receive Coronavirus Bailouts
Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are getting ready for massive bailouts, so here are the conditions to put on large corporations who need...
